"You know Norton, I've been watching you. And I know you've been watching me. You watch me! I know!......."
Posted on 10/07/2018 12:19:54 PM PDT by lowbridge
The streets of New York aren’t paved with gold, but the sewers apparently are.
An employee in the city’s Department of Environmental Protection walked off with an astonishing $539,098 paycheck last year, according to records released by the Empire Center think tank.
Bhavesh Patel, a stationary engineer, clocked 1,992 overtime hours on top of his 2,086 regular hours, the city confirmed Friday.
That means he worked an average of 78 hours a week for 52 weeks, assuming he never called out sick or took a day of vacation.
His pay was also bolstered by back pay from a new contract settled after a 10-year dispute.
“New York’s sewers run 24 hours a day with more than 1 billion gallons of wastewater and these engineers protect public health by ensuring it all flows in the right direction,” said DEP spokesman Ted Timbers, trying to explain the eye-popping figure.
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Alice and Norton were the stars of that show. I've read that Gleason saw his main role as a writer and producer rather than an actor.
One of Tony Soprano’s boys.
> And his pension will now go up considerably. <
That depends on how close he is to retirement. Most public pension system base your pension on how much you’ve made in the last 3 or 5 years.
Oh, and here’s a neat trick. I’m not saying it happened here, but...let’s say you and I are two public workers responsible for some project. I work 8 to 4. You’ve got 4 to midnight. I’m a year away from retirement.
So I say to you, “Hey, pal. Please start calling off sick. I’ll take the overtime, which will boost my pension. And in the meantime I’ll pay you for having to use up your sick days.”
> Don’t mess with the Stationary Engineers Union. <
You’ve got that right. I once worked security for a university. One day the stationary engineers went out on strike. But before they walked out, they sabotaged most of the heavy equipment in the buildings. No air conditioning, no hot water, dead electrical outlets, etc.
The strike was settled quickly.
And some municipalities do not include overtime wages in pension calculations.
DEP is a politicized, deep Leftist, swamp department. Ideologues cover for each other, real union ethos. A major question is whether he worked all those hours. It's possible, but 6 12-hour days per week plus another 6 hours on Sundays all year--that's a lot of hours, and would need to be documented and explained.
The manager should be asking, "Was this the most efficient way to do what you did?"
As the techniques of modern life get more and more complex and bigger and bigger the more you see these critical points of operations develop and the easier it is for a unified union to extort high wages.
One of the major supports of the Chicago Machine is its alliance with the unions. It pays them off with higher wages and pensions. They electioneer for it. Providing muscle to enforce Machine demands is another service. A Protection Racket.
DEP is a politicized, deep Leftist, swamp department. Ideologues cover for each other, real union ethos. A major question is whether he worked all those hours. It's possible, but 6 12-hour days per week plus another 6 hours on Sundays all year--that's a lot of hours, and would need to be documented and explained.
The manager should be asking, "Was this the most efficient way to do what you did?"
I read an article in a SCUBA magazine years ago about the NYC sewer system diver. Don’t know what he makes, but it wouldn’t be enough.
Ralph: “Alice, you JUST got to give me ten bucks so I can go to the party as “The Man From Space!’’
Alice: “ I’ll tell ya what I’ll do Ralph. I’ll give ya five dollars and you can go as “Billy The Kid’’.
“And away we go!”
5.56mm
Make him an exempt salaried contract employee
Oh yeah riiiiiight. A double shift always
I do not possess a villa in France, a yacht or a string of poloponies
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Very funny. They don’t make them like that anymore.
And send the army to fight the giant rats.
I once looked up the salaries of bus drivers and sewer workers. Back then in the 1950s and still today, sewer workers earn at least twice more than bus drivers. So thats why norton was able to afford a tv set, a telephone, nicer furniture, etc.
LOL! And you can see why, can’t you? I mean, Ralph once ran over the host of that tv show he was on.
Sorry, no. The greatest was Jackie Gleason. Followed by Meadows and Carney.
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